BREMERTON — Jayson Brocklesby of Olympic College has been named Northwest Athletic Conference Field Athlete of the Week after winning the NWAC decathlon championship.
Brocklesby, a 2013 graduate of Sequim High School, racked up 6,493 points in the 10 decathlon events which surpassed his previous personal-best by more than 200 points.
He also had personal records at the conference meet in the pole vault (12 feet, 7.25 inches), shot put (34-08.5), discus (114-06) and long jump (21-01.25) at last month’s meet.
Brocklesby and fellow Olympic College track and field athletes and former North Olympic Peninsula athletes Jolene Millsap (Port Angeles, 2014) and Hannah Hudson (Sequim, 2014) will compete at the NWAC Track and Field Championships in Spokane starting next Monday.
Brocklesby’s win and teammate Hunter Keffer’s sixth-place decathlon finish gives Olympic a head start in points heading into the championships.
Track and Field
Stewart places fourth
LOS ANGELES — Former Port Townsend track and field athlete Rebecca Stewart placed third in the 400-meter hurdles at the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Track and Field Championships earlier this month.
Stewart, a freshman at Scripps College in Claremont, Calif., ran the 400 hurdles in 64.36 seconds to help the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps track and field team win the women’s conference championship.
Stewart also placed 10th in the 100 hurdles with a time of 16:64 seconds.
Catelli wins two events for Huskies
SEATTLE — Frank Catelli (Sequim, 2012) won two events for the University of Washington at the Ken Shannon Invitational over the weekend.
Catelli, a junior, had a throw of 58 feet, 3 inches to win the shot put at the Huskies’ final home meet of the season.
He also won the discus with a throw of 173-03.
Maxwell earns All-New England
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Middlebury College senior Alison Maxwell (Port Angeles, 2011) earned All-New England honors with a runner-up finish at the Open New England Championships hosted by Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Friday and Saturday.
Maxwell recorded a time of 17 minutes, 7.68 seconds in the 5,000-meter run, second only to Sacred Heart’s Elizabeth Hutchins’ 17:03.55.
All three NCAA divisions were represented at the meet. The top-eight finishers earned All-New England honors.
Baseball
Cody Sullivan honored by GNAC
PORTLAND, Ore. — Cody Sullivan (Port Angeles, 2011) was named to the All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference second team last week.
Later in the week, Sullivan and the Western Oregon University baseball team won the GNAC tournament with three straight wins.
Sullivan had two hits in the Wolves 7-2 win over Northwest Nazarene in the semifinals Friday.
Later that day, he was hit by a pitch in Western Oregon’s clinching 4-3 win over Northwest Nazarene.
Sullivan his hitting .327 with four triples, two home runs and 34 RBIs. His .503 slugging percentage is tied for first on the team.
Konopaski’s school success recognized
PARKLAND — Pacific Lutheran University closer A.J. Konopaski (Port Angeles, 2011) has been named to the Capital One Academic All-District 8 First Team.
Konopaski, a senior, already is the most decorated pitcher in Lutes baseball history for his on-field exploits, is now receiving honors for his work in the classroom.
Konopaski has a 3.71 grade point average while pursuing a degree in business administration.
He is the only relief pitcher on the NCAA Division III District 8 academic honor list.
He now earns a spot on the Capital One Academic All-America Team ballot, where first-, second- and third-team All-America honorees will be selected in late May and early June.
Konopaski and the Lutes open the postseason against Emory at Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga., on Wednesday.
Pacific Lutheran is the he second seed in the South Region of the six-team double-elimination tournament.
Cray homers in Seattle rout
BELLEVUE — Landon Cray (Chimacum, 2102) helped Seattle University earn a conference series win with an 11-1 win over Chicago State in seven innings at Bannerwood Park on Sunday.
Cray hit a two-run home run in the second inning to give the Redhawks a 5-1 lead.
It was Cray’s second home run of the season.
He leads Seattle with a .497 slugging percentage and is second with a .300 batting average.
Softball
Frazier homers in loss
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Former Port Angeles standout Mariah Frazier homered for Olympic College in an 8-6 loss to Douglas in the Rangers’ regular season finale.
Despite finishing with a five-game losing streak, Olympic has earned a spot in the Northwest Athletic Conference tournament. The Rangers will open the tournament against Mount Hood on Friday.
Frazier, a shortstop, is second on the team with a .449 batting average. She is tied for first with four homers and tops Olympic with 29 RBIs.
Zbaraschuk helps Tritons advance
ST. LOUIS, Mo. — Madison Zbaraschuk had two hits as Missouri-St. Louis blanked Southern Indiana 7-0 at home in the NCAA Division II Midwest Regional No. 1 title game.
Sunday’s win earns the top-seeded Tritons a spot in this weekend’s super regionals where they will face second-seeded Indianapolis in a best-of-three showdown.
Zbaraschuk is a senior catcher for the Tritons, who are 47-6 this season.
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Compiled by Sports Editor Lee Horton, with help from email submissions from parents, friends and the colleges. Send updates of area athletes performing well elsewhere to lhorton@peninsuladailynews.com.
